Method of preparing absorbent cotton



D LUG'QL UNITED STATES cross REF PATENT OFFICE.

METHOD OF PREPARING ABSQRBENT COTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 2 27,4s0, dated May 11,1880.

' Application tiled J anunry z, 1880. i

To all! whom it may concern:

lie it known that I, LUCINDA A. BUGKNAM,

ol' Needlnnn, Massachusetts, have invented u.

' two quarts of certain Compound culled AlrsorbentUotton, tobe u ed indressing wounds zpid for all surgieul puryumes, of which the followingis a specilitflition.

:lhis invention consists in a. composition l'o'tmed usfollows, to wit:

To prepare the cotton, take four pounds clean row (5()tt0ll,l)1'0tll andcard it. Then dissolve two pounds otchlorlde of lime in thirtyboilingwater, (in at vessel of wood or stone.) After dissolving well putthecotton in the solution and stir it for twenty minutes, so as to haveit.well saturated. Then tulte out. the cotton and rinse it thoroughly inhot \vuter, changing the \voter three times. Then dissolve two poundsof'anl-sodu. in tort-5;

quarts of hot water. Put the cotton in the solution, stir it. well, letit stand ten minutes, then rinse thoroughly in hot water, changing thewater four times; then dry it and card it, and it is ready for use.

This ubsorhenteotton will sink innnediately in water, blood, nmtter, orother fluid where an absorbent is needed.

I cluim-- The method of preparing cotton as an absorhent. for surgicalpurposes, consisting in subjecting; it first to a bathot"ehloride-of-lime solution, then rinsing in water, afterwardsubjecting to a. bath 0tsolution of cunstie soda, and again rinsing, asset forth.

LUCINDA A. BUG-RNA.-

Witnesses:

Clms. UONANT, JENNIE E. PIfiliCE.

